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Immature male (not quite adult). — Similar to the adult male, but 

 with forehead dull grayish brown or dull bronze-green, instead of 

 metallic purple. 



Inagua Island, Bahamas. 



Trochilus evelynse (not of Bourcier) Bryant, Proc. Bost. Sor. N. H., 1866, 65, 

 part (Inagua, Bahamas). 



Doricha lyrura Gould, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 4th ser., iv, Aug., 1869, 111, 112 

 ("Long Id.," i. e., Indgua, Bahamas; coll. J. Gould). — Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 354 

 ("Long Island," error; synonymy; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 

 126.— Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 110; Auk, iii, 1886, 355; viii, 1891, 297, 

 351 (Indgua); Birds West Ind., 1889, 150; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 

 107, 127, 144 (Inagua; Long I.?).— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x\a, 1892, 

 382 ("Long Island"). 



[Doricha] lyrura Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 85. — Mulsant, 

 Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, n. s., xxii, 1876, 226. — Cory, List Birds West Ind., 

 1885, 18. 



Doriche lyrura Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 1, 1877, 

 41 ("Long Island"). 



Dorycha lyrura Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, ii, 1892, 28 (Inagua). 



C[nlliphlox] lyrura Hartert, Das Tierreieh, Troch., 1900, 199. 



[Calliphlox] lyrura Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 139. 



[Philodice] lyrura Simon, Cat. Troch., 1897, 38. 



Nesophlox lyrura Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 55. 



NESOPHLOX BRYANT.ffi (Lawrence). 



COSTA RICAN WOOD-STAR. 



Adult male. — Above dark, rather dull, metallic bronze-green; 

 four middle rectrices duller bronze-green passing into dusky ter- 

 minally, the remaming rectrices black glossed with purplish bronze, 

 the shafts and broad edgmg to mner webs pale cinnamon or cinna- 

 mon-buff; remiges dull pur])lisli black or purplish dusky; a small 

 wliitish or pale cinnamon-buff postocular spot; gorget bright metallic 

 magenta purple; chest dull wliite, passing posteriorly into deep 

 brownish gray, glossed with metallic bronze or bronze-green except 

 along median line, on lower parts of body; flanks cinnamon-rufous; 

 anal tufts white; tufts on sides of rumj) pale cinnamon-buff or buffy 

 white; under tail-coverts greenish bronzy margined with pale cinna- 

 mon or cinnamon-buff", cinnamon or cinnamon-buff basally; bill 

 dull black; iris dark brown; feet dusky grayisli brown; length 

 (skins), 82-94 (89); whig, 40.5-43 (41.6); tail, 32-3().5 (34.0), middle 

 rectrices 12-L3.5 (12.8); exposed culmen, 14.5-16.5 (15.6)." 



Adult female. — Above metallic bronze or bronze-green; middle 

 pair of rectrices bronze-green passing into dusky terminally; other 

 rectrices cinnamon-rufous basally, crossed by a broad subterminal 

 band of black and broadly tipped with paler cinnamon-rufous (excei)t 

 next to middle pair); wings as in adult male; lores dull grayish 



o Ten specimens, from Costa Rica. 



